Contents
Preface v
General Editors xiii
List of Contributors xv
Table of Cases xxiii
Table of Commission Decisions xxxix
Table of Treaties, Conventions and Agreements xlv
Table of EC Secondary Legislation xlix
PART I: AGREEMENTS
1 Undertakings 3
The Concept of an ‘Undertaking’: The Boundaries of the Corporation — A Discussion of Agency, Employees and Subsidiaries
CHRIS TOWNLEY
2 Agreements — Concerted Practices (Horizontal Side) 25
Collusion, Agreements and Concerted Practices: An Economic and Legal Perspective
ANTONIO CAPOBIANCO
3 Agreements (Vertical Side) 81
The Concept of an Agreement and Beyond: How to Block Parallel Imports of Pharmaceuticals to Protect the Heart of Competition
LUIS F SOUTO SOUBRIER
4 Treatment of Horizontal Agreements 143
The Quest for Legal Certainty – The EC Competition Law Approach to Horizontal Co-operation Agreements
KRZYSZTOF KUIK
5 Treatment of Vertical Agreements 175
Vertical Agreements: Was the Commission’s Response Adequate? On the Commission’s Ability to Reform Long-standing Policies
MAURIZIO GAMBARDELLA & FRANCESCO MARIA SALERNO
PART II: ABUSE OF DOMINANT POSITION
6 Article 82 EC – Dominance 209
Article 82 EC – Dominance and Oligopolies
7 Pricing Abuses 249 Unfair and Predatory Pricing under Article 82 EC: From Cost-price
Comparisons to the Search for Strategic Standards
DAVID HOWARTH
8 Bundling 297
A Four-step Test to Assess the Exclusionary Effects of Bundling under Article 82 EC
JURIAN LANGER
9 Refusal to Deal 333
The EC Essential Facilities Doctrine
VASSILIS HATZOPOULOS
10 Abuse of Dominant Position Defences 377
Objective Justification and Article 82 EC in the Era of Modernisation
EKATERINA ROUSSEVA
PART III: MERGERS
11 Horizontal and Vertical Mergers 435
Horizontal and Vertical Mergers in the Reformed EC Merger Control
JAMES KILLICK & AXEL SCHULZ
12 Conglomerate Mergers 495
A Comparison of the EU and US Approaches
RICHARD BURNLEY
13 Merger Defences 519
Efficiencies, Failing Firms and Industrial Policy
GIORGIO MONTI
PART IV: COMPETITION LAW AND THE STATE
14 State Action 551
The State Action Doctrine
JULIO BAQUERO CRUZ
15 Article 86 EC 591
Services of General Interest and EC Competition Law
JERÓNIMO MAILLO
PART V: DECENTRALISATION — ENFORCEMENT — INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION
16 Modernisation 629
Modernisation and Decentralisation: Retrospective and Prospective
ASSIMAKIS P KOMNINOS
17 Public Enforcement 675
Public Enforcement by the Commission: a Strategic Perspective
SOPHIE GERMONT & OLE ANDRESEN
18 Private Enforcement 725 Upcoming Issues
VELJKO MILUTINOVIC´
19 International Aspects 759
The Evolution of the EC International Competition Policy
BRUNO ZANETTIN
Index 797
